FAYETTEVILLE -- Chris Crutchfield moved up the NCAA Division I ranks as an assistant basketball coach the past 20 years with stops at New Mexico State, TCU, Oral Roberts University, Oklahoma and the University of Arkansas.
With each move, Crutchfield said, he got a pay raise and believed he was improving his chances of landing a Division I head coaching job.
"My goal has always been to be a Division I head coach," Crutchfield said. "That's what I've been working towards and chasing."
Crutchfield is now a college head coach at a four-year school for the first time, but it's at the Division II level.